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History professor wins Burkhardt Fellowship

By Sonia Qin | March 31, 2017

Two years from now, history professor Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch will be hundreds of miles from Hanover in Chicago, Illinois, working on her research on Ghana’s transnational alliances formed in the 1950s and 1960s at Northwestern University.

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Geisel School of Medicine rises in U.S. News rankings

By Peter Charalambous | March 30, 2017

The Geisel School of Medicine improved its ranking in the recently released 2018 U.S. News and World Report’s list of the “Best Medical Schools.” The rankings, which were released on March 14, placed Geisel as 27th in primary care and 35th in research, an increase from last year’s rankings of 45th and 40th, respectively. In an email, interim dean of Geisel Duane Compton called this year’s rankings “gratifying.” The 2018 rankings mark an improvement for Geisel, which has dipped in rankings since 2013, when it peaked at 31st in research.

The class poses at the Malapa dig site., South Africa, Anthropology 70
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Anthropology trip unearths hominid fossil

By Sunpreet Singh | March 30, 2017

As a child, Keira Byno ’19 always had an eye for finding shark teeth on the beach. However, she had not expected to find a two million-year-old fossil while excavating in the Malapa Fossil Site within the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Professor Katherine Mirica and her team developed this device to detect gases in the surrounding air. 
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Chemistry lab develops electronic toxic gas sensor

By Paulomi Rao | March 30, 2017

Using objects such as yellow wooden pencils and Shrinky Dinks, a child’s plastic toy that shrinks in size after being baked in an oven, chemistry professor Katherine Mirica and her team are developing a unique approach to build a portable and efficient electronic “nose,” a device to help detect toxic gases and environmental pollutants in the air and human bodies. An expert on nanomaterials, Mirica found in previous work that there was no single technology available to detect and monitor the chemical identity of gases harmful to the environment or humans.

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Family of bears reemerges around town and campus

By Anthony Robles | March 28, 2017

A sleuth of bears has stumbled back into the Hanover area having just emerged from hibernation. The changing of the seasons has brought an increased number of bear sightings near School Street as a sow and her cubs, now old enough to be considered yearlings, have been spotted multiple times by local residents in and around the Hanover area.

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College expresses support for transgender students

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 26, 2017

The College released a statement on Tuesday, March 21 expressing support for transgender and gender-nonconforming community members in response to President Donald Trump’s administration rescinding protections for transgender students. In the press release, the College stated that “everyone is welcome to use bathrooms and changing rooms that best align with their gender identity.” All existing services and programs for transgender students and employees are still in place, including gender-inclusive facilities, health care coverage, the ability to change their name and gender marker and accordance with the NCAA’s inclusion of transgender student-athletes policy.

The Morton Hall fire last fall, combined with high enrollment, means some leave-term students on campus for the spring do not have housing.
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Students left without spring leave-term housing

By Mika Jehoon Lee | March 7, 2017

Around 56 on-campus leave-term students, who remain in Hanover to work or do research but are not enrolled as students, will be without spring term housing due to high enrollment and the Morton Hall fire last fall, according to director of undergraduate housing Rachael Class-Giguere.

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Greek councils elect new leadership

By Frances Cohen | March 7, 2017

The Greek Leadership Council announced its new executive council members on Feb. 13. The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council released their lists of new officers in early March.

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Co-op reports loss for 2016

By Amanda Zhou | March 7, 2017

The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, which operates the Co-op Food Stores, fell short of breaking even last year, reporting a loss of approximately $125,000 for 2016.

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Winter Pitch awards funding and support to five teams

By Kristine Jiwoo Ahn | March 7, 2017

Last Thursday, the Digital Arts, Leadership and Innovation Lab and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network hosted The Pitch, Dartmouth’s shark-tank style entrepreneurial show, in Filene Auditorium from 7 to 9 p.m. The five selected winning teams were Gift Crate, Turf, Notist, AlertDrive and Cormat.

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Students attend 1vyG conference

By Joyce Lee | March 3, 2017

Thirty Dartmouth students traveled to attend the third annual 1vyG conference last weekend. 1vyG is an organization that connects first-generation Ivy League students so they can improve their campuses for first-generation college students.

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Bright Line Watch examines U.S. democracy

By Debora Hyemin Han | March 3, 2017

Last week, government professors John Carey and Brendan Nyhan, University of Rochester political science professor Gretchen Helmke, Yale University political science professor Susan Stokes and market research company partner Mitch Sanders released data from the first survey conducted by Bright Line Watch — a project that seeks to use scholarly expertise to monitor democratic practices and call attention to threats to American democracy, according to its website.

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